The Flexible Right To Buy? – Thatchers Vision?
• UK has the second-largest social housing sector in the EU, and over half of tenants in the sector want to own their own...
The Lie In The UN Rapporteur’s UK Poverty Report
Philip Alston is the UN Special Rapporteur on poverty. He's been around the UK telling all how terrible poverty is here.
It's not, obviously, as...
How The Catholic Church Stopped Us From Having Rotherham Grooming Gangs
A number of us have noted the series of trials going on concerning grooming gangs. The mass rape and abuse of young girls by...
A Fair Day’s Work For A Fair Day’s Pay
One thing we've learned from the Gender Pay Gap nonsense is that progressives feel that someone doing the same job as someone else should...
Regional Economic Subsidies – No, Don’t Do It, Leave The North Alone
We get plenty of wittering about how the North of the UK has been left to rot, how the South is leaving it behind....
Who Knew? The Household Is The Fundamental Human Economic Unit
Men and women - often enough that this determines the statistics - share work, household responsibilities and incomes. Longer commutes by men lead to...
High GDP Growth With Low Business Investment Is A Good Thing, An Efficiency
The UK economy seems to be growing reasonably, the best for a couple of years at least. It's also growing rather better than the...
Amazingly, If Work Pays Better Than Crime, People Will Work Not Commit Crimes
This perhaps shouldn't be quite the shock to the system that it will be to the systems of some:
The minimum wage, income tax credits,...
A Most Uncomfortable Thought About The Taiping Rebellion And The Black Death – Maybe...
There is a school of thought - perhaps just a strain of it rather than an entire institution - which tells us that the...
The Effects Of Tax Changes Depends Upon Whose Taxes Are Changed
Something that macroeconomists looking at the economy from 30,000 feet often miss. The effects of changes rather depend upon who the changes are occurring...